I have recently been playing around with re-writing my Spray paint stencils in Flash using JavaScript and HTML5’s canvas element. One thing I discovered is that since SVGs are natively supported in browsers I can have stencils scaled to any size and remain crisp, unlike the Flash version which used transparent PNGs.

I have implemented stencils, including having a muck layer, and stickers – graphics that you can place and cut out through stencils. When I first started playing around I was writing it all plain JavaScript, but eventually I converted everything over to TypeScript which allowed me to easily separate everything out into their own classes with event listening/dispatching capabilities. Almost mimicking the way things were written in AS3.

Below is a video of the early prototype, I will provide a live demo when it is more ready for public use.